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Regulators tipped to hold key rate

Africa’s key central banks are expected to hold benchmark interest rates at their first meetings of the year - albeit for different reasons.

While the drop in oil prices could give South African and Kenyan policy makers room to hold off on further rate increases, currency pressures could keep the central bank in Ghana from considering further easing for now.

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